Static Library

In computer science, a static library or statically-linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, producing an object file and a stand-alone executable. This executable and the process of compiling it are both known as a static build of the program. Historically, libraries could only be static.

… the currently available sources for social media data. An easier way to explain the evolution of social media data is to contrast it with the “Web of the past,” what assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University Jure Leskovec described as “a universal static library,” a place where users search and index resources offered…